The fortunes of Australia’s struggling department store duo Myer and David Jones may be set to rebound in the new year after an apparent recovery in sales over Christmas.

Rupert Murdoch took issue with the silencing of debate on social media, saying censorship had hobbled discourse with “awful woke orthodoxy”.

The private equity firm has found that Apollo’s chief executive and chairman, Leon Black, had paid $US150 million ($195 million) to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Hackers accessed a server which held credit applications and potentially confidential documents filed by financial institutions.

Corporate governance experts are urging more big companies to repay funds received through JobKeeper, warning taxpayers will bear the cost for decades.

The competition regulator has warned big bank acquisitions of fintech challengers could stifle competition and deny consumers future benefits from innovation.

Construction technology is booming with startup Matrak banking $5.85 million in funding on the back of increased activity in the sector as it moves to digitise. 

Coke Europe could walk away from the $12.75 per share deal - or stump another 40 to 50 cents which analysts reckon would get it over the line.

The European Union plans to use its diplomatic and economic muscle to accelerate global energy transition away from fossil fuels.

On this week’s episode of The Short Squeeze, we look at the latest economic data, the picture emerging from US earnings season, and the world of market research reports.

The cyber world makes it too easy to get distracted and to lose a clear focus on your career goals.

The powerful institutional investor advisory group ACSI says sexual harassment in the workplace is unacceptable.

The merger is expected to be completed by mid-February after it gets the green light from the WA Supreme Court.

Play the long game: Vaccine industry experts say it's understandable that Australia is struggling to secure more Pfizer doses, but the government could not have done much differently.

In a world where all it takes for a company to go crazy is a celebrity tout or quasi-mention by Elon Musk tweets, it should be no surprise that penny stocks are back in vogue.

Online supporters of President Donald Trump are scattering to smaller social media platforms, fleeing what they say is unfair treatment by Facebook, Twitter and other big tech firms looking to squelch misinformation and threats of violence.

Beleaguered payments technology company Tyro is being targeted by short seller Viceroy Research which claims Tyro's technology problems laid bare in an 11 day long outage are worse than reported.

As government advice on borders and CBDs chops and changes, some of the country's largest companies are taking a cautious approach to returning to work.

If 2020 was the year when the poor were hammered while investors made out like bandits, 2021 will see the tables turned. We may see a thriving economy even as Wall Street languishes.

The ASX rose as much as 0.6% before falling flat on Friday. BHP led gains for the miners while Afterpay also hit a new record. The market lost 0.6% for the week.